Jodeci-Back_To_The_Future_The_Very_Best_Of_(Advance)-2005-KSi +—————-+——————————————+—————-+ | | | Artist : Jodeci | | Album : Back To The Future: The Very Best Of (Advance) | | Bitrate : VBR kbps | | | +——————————-[Release Info]——————————-+ | | | Label : Universal Records | | Year : 2005 | | Genre : R&B | | Ripper : Kournikova | | Rip date : 2005-05-24 | | Store date : 2005-06-07 | | Size : 124 megs | | | +——————————–[Track List]——————————–+ | | | 1. Forever My lady 5:15 | | 2. Stay 5:10 | | 3. Come And Talk To Me 4:30 | | 4. I’m Still Waiting 4:19 | | 5. Lately 5:49 | | 6. Cry For You 5:00 | | 7. Feenin’ 5:10 | | 8. My Heart Belongs To You 4:59 | | 9. What About Us 4:32 | | 10. Love U 4 Life 4:54 | | 11. Freek N’ You 6:35 | | 12. Alone (Remix) 4:41 | | 13. Success (Remix) 4:36 | | 14. Get On Up 4:04 | | 15. S-More (Remix) 5:16 | | 16. Good Luv 4:50 | | ———————————————————————– | | 79:40 | | | +——————————-[Release Notes]——————————+ | | | Enjoy! | | | | If Boyz II Men are portrayed as a clean-cut, wholesome R&B vocal group, | | then Jodeci’s wild, sexual, bad-boy image represents the other side of | | the coin. Made up of two sets of brothers, the group’s name is a | | consolidation of three members’ aliases: “JoJo” Hailey, Donald “DeVante | | Swing” DeGrate, and Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey; the group also includes Dalvin | | DeGrate. Natives of Charlotte, NC, all four members toured the South as | | young boys singing gospel music, even recording albums; both families | | belonged to the Pentecostal church, and the DeGrates’ father was a | | minister. The boys were able to hear each other’s gospel songs played on | | the radio, and eventually were introduced through girlfriends as | | teenagers. However, when they did meet, K-Ci was with a girl Dalvin had | | been dating, and a fight nearly broke out. The Hailey brothers and | | DeVante started hanging out together, partying and talking about making | | R&B records together, coming up with the name Jodeci at this time. | | | | At age 16, DeVante ran away to Minneapolis to get a job in Prince’s | | organization, but was refused. He returned to Charlotte, where he wrote | | a song and recorded JoJo singing it. The two planned on going to New | | York to shop the demo around by themselves, but both K-Ci and Dalvin | | decided to tag along at the last minute. By the time they got to New | | York, they had demo recordings of 29 songs, which they brought to the | | offices of Uptown Entertainment. They were almost rejected, but rapper | | Heavy D overheard the tape and talked Uptown president Andre Harrell | | into hearing the group. Harrell was impressed, and just like that, | | Jodeci signed a recording contract. In 1991, they recorded Forever My | | Lady, which featured the gold single “Come and Talk to Me” and went on | | to sell over three million copies. A minor feud resulted over the band’s | | follow-up album, Diary of a Mad Band; Jodeci, unhappy with their | | treatment by Uptown, flirted with the idea of leaving for Dr. Dre’s | | Death Row Records, which resulted in almost zero promotion for their new | | album. It didn’t matter much, as Diary went platinum. The group’s | | troubles got worse in 1993; DeVante and K-Ci were involved in an | | incident with a woman K-Ci met at a club and brought back to DeVante’s | | apartment. The woman filed charges against the two, saying that K-Ci had | | threatened her and fondled her breast, while DeVante pointed a gun at | | her. Both pleaded guilty, but that wasn’t all; shortly afterwards, | | DeVante’s house was robbed of over 160,000 dollars in jewelry and | | clothes as the singer was held with guns in his mouth and at the back of | | his head. | | | | Jodeci’s third album, The Show, the After Party, the Hotel, was released | | in the summer of 1995. DeVante also was afforded the opportunity to work | | with Al Green, one of his idols, writing and producing the song “Could | | This Be the Love.” | | | +—————————————————————————-+ FH Link